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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most accurate description of the Tartars' appearance?
(a) Short, pale men with shaved heads.
(b) Tall, pale men with beards and long, braided hair.
(c) Short, dark men with beards and long, braided hair.
(d) Tall, dark men with shaved heads.

2. Immediately following the fight, what decision does the stranger have to make?
(a) She needs to decide whether to go to the market or go home.
(b) He needs to decide whether to steal the goods or chase the horse.
(c) He needs to decide whether to chase Pan Andrew or the horse.
(d) He needs to decide whether to kidnap Joseph or go back to Krakow.

3. Despite the fact that he knows he might die as he faces the Tartars in 1241, what does the trumpeter decide to do?
(a) Flee to the castle.
(b) Sound the Heynal for Poland and Our Lady.
(c) Try to kill the Tartars he sees.
(d) Sound the trumpet for the lost people of Kiev.

4. Where is the Charnetski family going with the caravan?
(a) They are traveling to Kiev.
(b) They are traveling to Lvov.
(c) They are traveling to Ukraine.
(d) They are traveling to Krakow.

5. When Joseph returns to the marketplace to give his family the news about their possible lodgings, what is the scene he sees?
(a) His parents' cart surrounded by a mob of angry peasants.
(b) His parents' cart surrounded by the king and his royal court.
(c) His parents' cart surroundeded by people offering them a place to stay.
(d) His parents' cart surrounded by Tartars.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, whom does Pan Andrew say he has to come to see?

2. Which is the best description of the trumpeter as he plays amidst all of the destruction in Krakow?

3. Which best describes the Tartars' religious belief?

4. What is the name provided as the stranger approaches the individual wagon in the caravan?

5. What is the scene Joseph sees when he first goes to explore the marketplace?

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